Police searching for man after 40-mile chase

12:03 AM,
Feb. 14, 2013

Written by

Michael Gulledge
MGULLEDGE@NEWS-LEADER.COM

Police are searching for a man in Lawrence County after a chase through multiple counties early Wednesday evening.

Greene County deputies responded to a suspicious black Ford pickup north of Springfield just before 4 p.m., Greene County Sheriff Jim Arnott said. The driver of the vehicle fled from deputies. The license plate did not match the truck, Arnott said.

Deputies pursued the vehicle about 40 miles before the chase ended off Lawrence County road 2052, about four miles west of Halltown, Arnott said. The truck drove into the woods and the deputy could not follow in the patrol car. The ...